{"product_id":"displaying-women","title":"Displaying Women","description":"Displaying Womenexplores the role of women in the representation of leisure in turn-of-the-century New York. To see and be seen--on Fifth Avenue and Broadway, in Central Park, and in the fashionable uptown hotels and restaurants--was one of the fundamental principles in the display aesthetic of New York's fashionable society\u003cbr\u003e Maureen E. Montgomery argues for a reconsideration of the role of women in the bourgeois elite in turn-of-the-century America. By contrasting multiple images of women drawn from newspapers, magazines, private correspondence, etiquette manuals and the New York fiction of Edith Wharton, Henry James and others, she offers a convincing antidote to the long-standing tendency in women's history to overlook women whose class affiliations have put them in a position of power.","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44521288859886,"sku":"9780415905664","price":67.19,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780415905664.jpg?v=1702050130","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/displaying-women","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}